Are there figures on the "unemployment rate" of illegals in America?

Question

Surely they ALL cant be working. A quick drive to your local home improvment store will tell you that. I wonder how the percentage of unemployed illegal compares to the percentage of unemployed Americans or legal immigrants.

Sergio, In order to entertain your answer I would have to equate illegal aliens to mexicans.

thanks for the link tlb

Answer 1

It took awhile but I found a few...

While the native born rate fell from 5.9 percent to 5.2 percent between 2003 and 2005, the rate for foreign-born workers fell from 6.6 percent to 4.6 percent. Further, the percentage of foreign born workers in the workforce increased from 10.8 percent ten years ago to 14.8 percent today.


http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kirsanow200604190611.asp

Answer 2

How can there be any unemployed illegals inside the borders of the US. It is not legal for them to seek employment.

Ok. Home improvement center. Are you there at 6:00am? Some contractor doors are open at 6:am for will-calls. There is usually a large number of pickup day labor wait to get a nod from a contractor to help load, ride to the site and unload, all of the above and they stick around as helpers. Some are quite skilled. The best prepared have a bag or tools.

Some come at different times of the day. Some return from one job and pick up another.

Some work every day. Some work a few days. There are two industrial laundries in my town. The labor needs fluctuate and there is a door where women line up for a days work. Rain or shine there is someone there to enter the door when it opens.

All job seekers are able to get something at least four days a week. Landscaping contractors absorbs a great number. Restaurants and caterers absorb a great number for back-of-house, cleanup and dishwashing. I live in a resort and business hotel area. Housekeeping absorbs a lot of day labor.

All work after a fashion. Legals are able to go to day labor agencies. Legals are able to work for privatized city services crews.

What are the standards of your observations and measurements? Are you employed? Is it a 9-5 job. Do you have duties that take you out on the street in the work day. How have you come to be stimulated to ask the question in the first place.

Answer 3

Probably not...ever since the politically correct and amnesty crowd have influenced the system more, its either not part of the questioning process if not down-right illegal to ask people thier immigration status or if they are even a citizen or not.
And as we learn more and more of different states being foolish enough to just simply "trust" people, it doesn't look like anyone can do anything significant to find out the figures. The Census even went as far as to tell the Feds to back off crack downs so they can get an accurate count....which is strange..because these were the same Leftist libs that claimed we couldn't deport all the illegals cuz we wouldn't be able to find them. Well if they can't find them...then how can they count them is my question.
Too many lies and inconsistancies for me I guess.

Answer 4

The numbers cannot accurately be counted. One way unemployment is tallied is by counting how many people are receiving Unemployment Benefits. Illegals need to have a valid SS# and worked over 3 months straight, and not Quit their job in order to be eligible for that. Sure, they can fake info, and do, in order to collect.

But there's no way of verifying the total number of people who are unemployed. Besides, any of them with a baby get food stamps, welfare and a host of other goodies to make NOT WORKING for taxable income, worthwhile.

Answer 5

In today's AZCENTRAL.com report; many illegal aliens are leaving before the Jan.1st 2008 crackdown. Many businesses that catered specifically to Illegals in Chandler,AZ have stated that most can not get jobs and are becoming homeless for lack of jobs. They are complaining that their sales have gone far down and that they are unable to attract business so they RELUCTANTLY need to market towards Anglos..

So, Not many are finding it lucrative to find easy jobs pretty rapidly since the crackdowns. I will find you the article, but the percentage of jobs available seem to be filled already and there should be no need for the influx of illegal aliens we get today.. just my honest/humble opinion.

Answer 6

i'm confident that it would be drastically under what that's at present. purely the easy reality that the shortcoming of unlawful migrant workers might create a great hard paintings void. yet permit's settle for it, unlawful immigrants are not the only concern nor are they the source. The source of the concern is the businesses, businesses, and employers who hire guy or woman who they have finished know-how are working under fake, deceptive, and unlawful pretenses. confident, unlawful migrant workers do paintings that many human beings might turn their nostril at. in spite of the undeniable fact that, further and extra businesses are turning to unlawful workers for jobs that human beings covet by way of fact the fee of hard paintings is a lot much less. In different words, the concern is a double edged sword. unlawful workers paintings for decrease wages, consequently offering customers with cheaper cost products, and maximum heavily to the businesses who hire them they permit for greater and greater salary. If we tension them out, we are able to anticipate to be sure greater costs interior the save isles by way of greater hard paintings expenses as those businesses ought to care much less approximately there workers yet care very much approximately greater salary and bonuses. extremely than create rules punishing unlawful immigrants, we ought to consistently concentration on starting to be rules punishing the businesses who hire them. If there's a time-honored set or a regularly occurring coverage that stops those businesses from greater low fee and unlawful hard paintings then might unquestionably see a alleviation in unlawful migrants. i think of businesses must be compelled to place some thing on their products approximately what number hard paintings violations they have had, the place the product is precisely made and produced, etc. for my section i do no longer via any fruit or vegetable that replaced into grown exterior of the U. S. nor will i purchase from a business corporation that i comprehend first hand that workers unauthorized workers. i do no longer think of this is optimal that we attack illegals, by way of fact they're attempting to what all of us desire to do and that's to make funds to help our relatives. We purchase the products, we turn down the roles, we save the businesses to blame of employment fraud in corporation with hefty salary. If we ought to blame some thing or somebody, seem interior the replicate and perfect your elected chief! we are the reason, we ought to take the stairs to repair it.

Answer 7

I have seen quoted 30% are unemployed. I have no sources though.
Seems about right from what I know. These are day workers. Catch as catch can.

Answer 8

well, mexico has a VERY low unemployment rate; even lower than the u.s. i would assume that the rate of unemployment for mexicans in the u.s. is also low.